Smitty’s a hero with a big four zero

March 21, 2009

3/21/09

 It’s been a while since I’ve been to a Nuggets game and before the game started the Nuggets were on a four game win streak. The Nuggets are H-O-T (29-8) this season and I was hoping the wife and I’s presence wouldn’t interfere with that momentum.

Unfortunately we didn’t get there early enough to see the Nuggets warm-up. We arrived about five minutes into the game.

The star of the show tonight was my favorite Nugget J.R. Smith. Smitty scored an insane 40 points tonight. J.R. was allowed to start the game and seriously took advantage of that opportunity.

I’m glad that Krista, I and 18, 231 others in attendance were able to witness “Smitty’s Basketball School”. It was downright pleasurable watching the Wizzards being subject to “Professor Smith’s” night classes and failing miserably.

At one point towards the beginning of the game the Wizzards were up by seven points but once the Nuggets snatched the lead back it was never returned leading at one point by as much as 17 points.

Here’s a picture show for you. As always let me know what you think. You don’t have to love basketball to enjoy a good picture.

                               Here’s Renaldo Balkman about to earn his money.

                                              Linas Kleiza and the Birdman            Here is Kleiza trying to “Be Like Mike” He skies pretty good for a white boy.
       The Birdman showing off his no-look block. Birdman scored 18 points in this game. 
                                          One of J.R.’s many shots tonight.

       Chauncey Billups scored 5 points and had six assists in his 32 minutes of play.
                                                The score at half-time.
The Nuggets half-time show was wild. The outfits were so bright I thought somebody had possibly slipped something in my drink. The colors were intense.

                                              The ladies strutting their bling.
    I’m not quite sure exactly what I’m witnessing here but this dude had some rhythm.
                          Then it got really intense, it was starting to make me dizzy.
So by now the room is spinning so I had to look away to regain my balance. I looked up and what did I see?
A big old Coors can. Beware of the useless coupons that this and similar blimps like to drop on your head. You could really get hurt and the coupons are worthless. Tell you what, float a big “Fat Tire” beer bottle up there and maybe I’ll risk injury, but for a Coors (aka Rocky Mountain pisswater), I wouldn’t walk to the fridge.

Save you knees, a free paper isn’t worth an injury either. I tell you what, if those stupid blimps dropped baseballs it would be game on…
 A Ranter basketball blog entry wouldn’t be complete without a obligatory cheerleader shot 🙂

        Check out the guys face on the far right holding up the cheerleader, he’s hurting.
                              I’ll zoom in on his expression for you, priceless 🙂
Sorry dude, I didn’t mean to expose you nationally but you really need to work on your game face.

                                                        JR and Melo

                                                       Love this expression.

By far the “Best Hat of the Game”. I guess if you can afford a snazzy hat like that, court side seats are chump change.
                      Kleiza going for the block with Birdman ready for the rebound.
                                           The Birdman with the slamajama.
  Birdman had 18 points, 11 rebounds and get this…6 blocked shots. All that in only 22 minutes. This dude is awesome to watch and the fans love him.

                                        Welcome to Denver brotha, where you been?          

                                                           Marcus who?

I’m not sure who this guy was, but he may actually be attending Referee School.

He kept standing up and moving his arms and saying, “safe”. It’s cool, you meet all kinds of people at at Nuggets game and I like baseball.
                                                        Group picture
             JR Smith and Chris Anderson, making a name for themselves this season. 

The Nuggets wave their magic wands and spell out the Wizzards 116-105.

(Go back and read that last sentence, nice huh? 🙂

Melo had 20 points and looked like he may have hurt his ankle?? Hope he’s ok.
Nene had 11 points and 2 blocked shots.

Thanks for stopping by, if your interested in of being one of the first people to participate in the new sport called Hagg’n let me know. If not we could always use cheerleaders..:)

Written by RANTER Posted in Ranter's Blog Entries Tagged with Birdman, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Anderson, Colorado Rockies, Denver Nuggets, J.R. Smith, Nene, Wizzards